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STUART & BRIDGE.

Fender.

Patented Feb. 8, 1870.

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DAVID STUART AND LEWIS BRIDGE, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA,

ASSIGNORS TO STUART, PETERSON, & 00., OF SAME PLAGE.

Letters Patent No. 99,726, dated February 8, 1870; antedated August 9, 1869.

FENDER FOR FIRE-PLACE HEATERS.

The Schedule referred to in theee Letters Patent and making part of the same exact description of the same.

scribe its construction and operation, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, which forms a part of this specification, and in which- Figure 1 represents a plan view of the hearth-plate for a lire-place stove, with fender'attached to the same.

Figure 2, a front view of fig. 1. I

On reference to figs. 1 and 2- A represents the hearth-plate described in our application for a patent, filed February 25, 1869, as being situated in front of a fire-place stove.

The fender is composed of two permanent curved bars B and B and a movable or detachable bar 0, the two permanent portions being connected to the hearthplate by pins a a, and the movable bar having a pin, b, fitting with its lower end in a hole, 0,. in the hearthplate, the opposite ends of the bar G'having sockets for fitting over and embracing the ends of the permanent portions B and B of the fender.

When it becomes necessary to withdraw the ashdrawer from beneath the fire-place of the stove, the

portion 0 of the fender is detached to make way for" the said drawer, after the reintroduction of which beneat-h the fire-place the portion 0 is replaced, as shown iii-fig. 2, so as to become a continuation of the permanent portionsrof the fender.

" We do not desire to claim, broadly, a hearth-plate with a movable fender or movable fender-rail; but

We claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent- A hearth-plate of a fire-place stove, in combination with a fender-rail composed of the two fixed portions B and B and disconnected detachable portion O, all substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof, we have signed our name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

DAVID STUART. LEWIS BRIDGE.

Witnesses:

J. HOWARDBEVILLE, JOSEPH MCOLARY. 

